Session types
Full Day (8:00 AM - 6:00 PM), Full Day (8:00 AM - 4:00 PM), Full Day (8:00 AM - 12:00 PM), Full Day (1:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
Ribbon Daycare
Ofsted: Outstanding
(Nov 2022)
Number of places
79 places
Age range
0–5 yrs
Last inspected
Nov 2022
Local authority
Durham
About this day nursery
Ribbon Daycare, located in Seaham, SR7 9QR, and Fishburn, TS21 4AU, provides a natural, calming, and stimulating environment designed to meet the individual needs of children from 0 to 7 years old. The nursery focuses on sparking imagination and enhancing personal, social, and emotional development through thoughtfully designed rooms.
Highly trained practitioners support children in understanding the world around them and encourage creative expression. As a Company Limited by Guarantee, Ribbon Daycare reinvests any profits back into enhancing its services, including purchasing new resources, equipment, and providing ongoing staff training.
The nursery aims to deliver the highest standard of care and early education through expert qualified staff in an exciting and stimulating atmosphere. Ribbon Daycare offers both private and funded day care options.
Our ethos
Here at Ribbon Daycare Fishburn we provide a natural, calming and stimulating environment to meet the individual needs of all children within our care. Our rooms are designed to spark imagination and enhance children's personal, social and emotional development. Practitioners are highly trained to support all children to understand the world around them and encourage them to use their creative skills to express themselves. We aim to provide the highest standard of care and early education by expert qualified staff in an exciting and stimulating environment.
What it's like
Children thrive at this highly inviting and inclusive setting. They benefit from a challenging and ambitious curriculum that ignites children's curiosity to learn, including making new discoveries and showing determination to solve their own problems during play and investigations. Children's communication and language skills are continually embedded across all age groups through core story books and familiar songs, chosen to extend, challenge, and build on their development.
Natural environmentStimulating environmentHighly trained practitionersCompany Limited by Guarantee
Pricing & funding
Fees are uniform across all age groups from birth to over three years old. The nursery offers full ten-hour days, eight-hour days, and morning or afternoon half-day sessions. Funding for 15 and 30 hours is available for children aged three and over.
Funding accepted
15 hours — universal (3–4 yrs)30 hours — working parents (3–4 yrs)
Good to know
- Offers 15 and 30 hours of government funding for children aged 3 and over.
Key facts
Opening hours
Monday to Friday, from 8am until 5.30pm
Age range
0-7 years
Term time / All Year
All Year
Ofsted Inspection
Ofsted rating for Ribbon Daycare
Last inspected 29 November 2022
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
What it's like to attend
Children thrive at this highly inviting and inclusive setting. They benefit from a challenging and ambitious curriculum that ignites children's curiosity to learn, including making new discoveries and showing determination to solve their own problems during play and investigations. Children's communication and language skills are continually embedded across all age groups through core story books and familiar songs, chosen to extend, challenge, and build on their development.
Inspector highlights
- Attachments between children and staff are remarkable; children feel safe and secure with highly nurturing staff.
- Children develop wonderful friendships and demonstrate exceptional social skills, showing confidence and impeccable manners.
- Children are provided with nutritious foods and participate in cooking activities, also benefiting from exciting and adventurous physical play.
- Parents are extremely complimentary about leaders and staff, receiving regular information about their children's development.
- Highly qualified and knowledgeable leaders provide unwavering support, coaching, and mentoring for staff to continually enhance practice.
Inspection #10262754 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report
Inclusion & environment
How they support every child
SEND provision
Children with special educational needs and/or disabilities are fully supported to make the best possible progress in their learning and development. Staff work very closely with a range of external health professionals, such as Portage workers, speech and language therapists and health visitors, providing excellent early intervention activities for children who require additional support.
Outdoor space
Children are provided with exciting and adventurous physical play. Staff encourage babies to move their whole bodies while waving ribbons and dance enthusiastically to music. Toddlers combine paint, foam and water in the outdoor area. Older children balance, climb and coordinate movements as they climb on large outdoor play equipment.
Inspection history
Date: June 2010
- November 2022Outstanding
- September 2017Outstanding
- January 2014Outstanding
- February 2013Good
- June 2010Good
Frequently asked about Ribbon Daycare
About the setting
Ribbon Daycare registered in 2007. The nursery employs 16 members of childcare staff, all holding appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 and above, including one with early years professional status. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, from 8am until 5.30pm, for 51 weeks of the year, and provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.
- URN
- EY342286
- Registered person
- Ribbon Daycare Limited
- Day care type
- Full day care
- Register
- Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register
- Establishment type
- Childcare on non-domestic premises
- Previous rating
- Outstanding
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